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Press Release Dec. 10, 2013, Västerås, Sweden. Major Players invest in Percepio Percepio AB develops the Tracealyzer software, an analysis tool for developers of embedded and Linux-based software systems. Tracealyzer visualizes the internal behavior of the target system through more than 20 graphical views, interconnected in intuitive ways. This gives developers a new level of [...]

We finally release the first public version of Tracealyzer for VxWorks, now available on the Downloads page. Tracealyzer for VxWorks uses the existing monitoring in Wind River VxWorks by visualizing the ".wvr" files normally intended for Wind River System Viewer/Wind View. For a comparison between Tracealyzer and Wind River's existing tools, see this video. Tracealyzer [...]

We are proud to announce the first public release of Tracealyzer for Linux, now available on the Downloads page. Tracealyzer for Linux relies on the LTTng v2.x tracing framework, but also supports older versions of LTTng, used e.g. in Wind River Linux This is a Beta version but should be fairly stable. It is however [...]

Take this opportunity to get FreeRTOS+Trace Professional Edition for half price. Starting today and until June 14th, you get it for $747 instead of $1,495! Buy online here!

Rt-labs provides a development environment and real-time operating system (rt-kernel) for embedded software development. In collaboration with Percepio, rt-labs now offer a customized version of Tracealyzer with built-in support in their operating system rt-kernel. The Swedish electronics magazine Elektroniktidningen published an article about this, read it here (in Swedish).

A new version of FreeRTOS+Trace is now available, v2.2.4. This version contains several fixed bugs and we recommend you to update your installation. There is one new feature: support for MPLAB .mch memory dump files. To save the RAM dump as an .mch file, using MPLAB 8.86, select View menu -> File Registers -> Export Table. Note: The [...]

The recorder library of FreeRTOS+Trace now includes support for all microcontrollers based on ARM Cortex M3, M4 and M4F cores. This includes many popular microcontrollers such as STM32Fx and NXP LPC17xx. Note that the hardware dependencies of FreeRTOS+Trace are minimal, and many users have developed hardware adaptations for their specific chips when official support has [...]

Percepio AB was awarded "Innovator of the Year" by the city of Västerås at the "Guldstänk" gala event. A very impressive show in a full Concert Hall, 930 people in the audience. Although we knew we were nominated, winning was not expected. The other nominees in this cathegory were very strong and more estabilished companies, [...]

Percepio are currently exhibiting at Embedded World, Nuremberg, Germany, the largest trade show within Embedded Systems with over 700 exhibitors and 18000 visitors. The interrest for our new FreeRTOS+Trace product has been fantastic, we are have met a lot of FreeRTOS users and others (including potential distributors) that were truely impressed by our product! This [...]

We are proud to announce our new product FreeRTOS+Trace, a special version of the latest generation Tracealyzer optimized for FreeRTOS. This has been developed in collaboration with the FreeRTOS developers at Real Time Engineers ltd. See our new FreeRTOS+Trace product page FreeRTOS+Trace is part of the new FreeRTOS+ partner program, which serves to promote commercial [...]

After Innovationsbron made a press release regarding their investment in Percepio AB, a journalist called from Ny Teknik, the largest tech publication in Sweden. Here is the result (swedish). http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/innovation/forskning_utveckling/article3412166.ece

The swedish seed investor Innovationbron invests 1.6 MSEK in Percepio AB, and 1:a Västmanlandsfonden joins with an additional 200 KSEK, in total 1.8 MSEK. This allows Percepio to recruit and and accelerate towards the international launch of our Tracealyzer technology in collaboration with international partners. http://www.innovationsbron.se/Om-Innovationsbron/Nyheter/Ny-svensk-innovation-hittar-snabbt-buggar-i-programvara/ http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/pressroom/vastmanlandsfonden/pressrelease/view/1-a-vaestmanlandsfonden-investerar-i-percepio-733868

Percepio will exhibit at Embedded World, in Nuremberg, Germany, between 28.2 - 1.3, 2012. We will show the latest version of our Tracealyzer, which has evolved a lot during the last months. You find us in Hall 4, stand 4-503.

The hugely popular real-time operating systems FreeRTOS was today release in version 7.1.0. The new version contains several improvements highly related to our Tracealyzer product, which makes it easy to get started with Tracealyzer on FreeRTOS. The Tracealyzer product consists of two parts: the actual PC application "Tracealyzer" and a recorder library, which is delivered in [...]

Christer Norström and Niklas Rudemo joins the board of Percepio AB. Read more about them at the Board page.

We have been accepted into Microsoft's program for software startups, BizSpark. This allows us to use many Microsoft products for free, and also provides higher visibilit  

Photos from todays test flight in the "Cloud Computing" project can be found here (153 MB zip file) Unfortunatly, the onboard camera could not be used at this time, so nothing from the plane yet. Read more about this project at http://www.percepio.se/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=12&cntnt01returnid=58

Computer Sweden recently published an article on the embedded systems market size. According to a recent IDC report,"Intelligent Systems: The Next Big Opportunity", the market for embedded systems is "developing rapidly, with over 1.8 billion units and more than $1 trillion in revenue today. By 2015, the market will double to nearly 4 billion units [...]

Telcred AB, a developer of NFC-based physial access systems (www.telcred.com), have decided to buy a licence for Percepio's Tracealyzer.

nnovationsbron decided today to invest in Percepio AB in their seed funding program "Insats mot Royalty". This investment enables us to take  Tracealyzer to a broader market, and also to begin the productification of our Katana techonlogy.

We are proud to announce that Tracealyzer now supports FreeRTOS. The first supported hardware platform is Atmel AT91SAM7X, an ARM7 MCU. We are working on extending the official hardware support, but if you have a concrete case for us, contact us for a discussion - portingto different hardwares is quite easy as the hardware dependencies are [...]

In early July, Johan Kraft will present a paper at WATERS 2011, the 2nd International Workshop on Analysis Tools and Methodologies for Embedded and Real-time Systems. The title of the paper is "Continuous Constant-Memory Monitoring of Embedded Software Timing".

Students at Mälardalen University are currently working full time constructing an autonomous airplane model, that stabilize and navigate using on-board computers and sensors. The students in the project course are from the Robotics program and from the Master Program in Intelligent Embedded Systems It is based on a large RC model plane, an electrical powered glider with [...]

We have just changed content management system (CMS), from Joomla to "CMS Made Simple", which feels like the right choice. The speed improved quite a lot. In the process we also redesigned it, and we hope that you find the new version more pleasant. This however require us to do a manual migration of all earlier [...]

Percepio will exhibit at ElektronikExpo where Johan Kraft will give an invited talk, in Västerås, Sweden on May 6th 2011. This is has been announced at www.evertiq.se http://www.evertiq.se/news/22445

Our partner Quadros Systems, Inc. have just made a press release on their new product RTXCview - the Quadros RTXC version of the Tracealyzer. http://www.quadros.com/news-and-events/news/PR11- 450

Johan was interviewed at Embedded Conference Scandinavia when showing RTXCview. The result is a full page in the Swedish magazine "Automation". The title means "Program makes robots work correctly". (Click for a readable pdf version.)

Today Johan Kraft presented a paper on the conference Runtime Verification 2010, held in Malta. The title of the paper is "Trace Recording for Embedded Systems: Lessons Learned from Five Industrial Projects" This is an experience report on five industrial projects we have performed between 2004-2010 on integration of software tracing in industrial embedded systems. The [...]

Johan got interviewed by the local paper, VLT, about Percepio AB in mid september. (click to enlarge)  

Quadros Systems, Inc. will soon release RTXCview, the new tracing solution for RTXC Quadros, which has been developed in a collaboration between Quadros Systems, Inc. and Percepio AB. Quadros Systems demonstrated RTXCview at Embedded Live in London in mid october.

We got some nice attention in Computer Sweden and at IDG.se The title means "He knows code". (link)

Johan attended Embedded Conference Scandinavia, a side event of "Tekniska Mässan" in Stockholm, Oct 19-20 2010, and demonstrated the latest version of RTXCview. The most striking experience is the amount of people that got interested just walking by and seeing the innovative user interface, even though they did not know anything about it.

Percepio recently got two articles in Elektroniktidningen (a major electronics trade magazine in Sweden), one for each of our two areas: "Swedish tool now in RTXC" (link) "Days of code analysis in seconds" (link)

Johan Kraft, who presented his PhD thesis on august 27, was appointed MDH researcher of the month for September 2011. (link)